&ldquo;A book about young men transformed by war, written by a veteran whose dazzling literary gifts gripped my attention from the first page to the last.&rdquo; &mdash;The Wall Street Journal <BR /><BR />&ldquo;Friedman&rsquo;s sober and striking new memoir . . . [is] on a par with Tim O&rsquo;Brien&rsquo;s The Things They Carried -- its Israeli analog.&rdquo; &mdash;The New York Times Book Review<BR /><BR /> It was just one small hilltop in a small, unnamed war in the late 1990s, but it would send out ripples that are still felt worldwide today. The hill, in Lebanon, was called the Pumpkin; flowers was the military code word for &ldquo;casualties.&rdquo; Award-winning writer Matti Friedman re-creates the harrowing experience of a band of young Israeli soldiers charged with holding this remote outpost, a task that would change them forever, wound the country in ways large and small, and foreshadow the unwinnable conflicts the United States would soon confront in Afghanistan, Iraq, and elsewhere.

<BR />Pumpkinflowers is a reckoning by one of those young soldiers now grown into a remarkable writer. Part memoir, part reportage, part history, Friedman&rsquo;s powerful narrative captures the birth of today&rsquo;s chaotic Middle East and the rise of a twenty-first-century type of war in which there is never a clear victor and media images can be as important as the battle itself.<BR /><BR /> Raw and beautifully rendered, Pumpkinflowers will take its place among classic war narratives by George Orwell, Philip Caputo, and Tim O&rsquo;Brien. It is an unflinching look at the way we conduct war today.

Listen to Matti's conversation with The Life Is Better With A Pomeranian Scrapbook and Journal: Dog Vaccination Record, Puppy Baby Book and Memory Book (Dog Scrapbooks) York Times Book Review's Pamela PaulIn 2002, he decided to answer that call and visit Lebanon as a tourist, something he had the luxury to do as a Canadian-born citizen.What did he discover? A country of kind, gracious people strangers who invited him along on their picnics and were forever pressing lists into his hand Army Life in a Black Regiment friends and relations ready to host himFriedman wields the microscope and the telescope with equal adeptness, a skill set that wonderfully fits the perspectival paradoxes of his subject, which is has all the ugliness of a garrison, yet it is perched in a rolling landscape of uncommon beautyA nonfiction war memoir is the type book I find at the store and put back a necessity like milk or underwear so I can afford it.It is inconceivable that I wouldn't be completely infatuated with a book like thisMore recently he wrote The Aleppo Codex, a true-life detective story of how the most complete copy of the Bible reached IsraelThe media was complicit in creating their storyYou are already subscribed to this emailI think most people will come away with a somewhat new perspective on the emerging world in which we now find ourselvesThere were seventy-three men on board.That tragedy turned out to be a turning point in a war that most Israelis had previously accepted as justSections Home Search Skip to content Skip to navigation View mobile version The New York Times BooksReview: In Pumpkinflowers, a New Style of Middle East Combat Search Subscribe Now Log In 0 Settings Close Joy: Timber Edition (Timber Editions) (Volume 3) Site Search Navigation Search NYTimes.com Clear this text input Go Loading

Israel has released hundreds of terrorists in exchange for prisoners, even the remains of prisonersFriedman takes us into Israeli society with the peace movementNow Resumen de &quot;Steve Jobs: La Biografia Exclusiva&quot;, de Walter Isaacson (Spanish Edition) Israeli generals propose more withdrawals on the West Bank, in exchange for nothing at allInstead, I found myself struggling to continue, wanting to read something elseThis year all of the processing has been tinged with happiness as I work my way through the 2016 NYT Book review best-reviewed book that was helpfully The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Appunti di Equitazione (Italian Edition) libraryYoung men were sent to a remote place called Pumpkin Hill, in order to protect the border between Lebanon and Israel; the conflict cost many lives on both sides over several decadesHere Friedman proves himself to be both an acute analyst of his country and its shifting sensibilities as well as an accomplished travel writerThe present day might still be the beginningflag 1 likeLike see review The Four Mothers, who started to protest the continued Israeli presence in southern Lebanon;Few took them seriously 48a4f088c3